I’ve been searching for a new apple recipe for all those lovely autumnal apples and I found one for Maple, Pecan and Apple Cupcakes with Maple Frosting on Cupcake frenzy. I omitted the pecans completely and changed some of the amounts. The result was very sweet even though I reduced the amount of sugar and syrup. The cupcakes smells wonderful and I could easily bake these more times, but with less sugar and maybe even without the frosting which adds more sweetness.

For decoration I made mini Totoros in sugar fondant/paste, which I coloured blue. The eyes and bellies are made from uncoloured white sugar fondant and the details are painted with a food pen. The Totoros are very sweet and I wouldn’t eat them, but you could if you have a sweet tooth :-) The inspiration for the Totoros came from the Totoro tutorial at The Scent of Green Bananas and Hundrednorth’s flicker stream.

Preheat oven to 170 degrees C.
Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Add syrup, beat a little more and add the eggs one at a time. Add flour, cinnamon and baking powder. Add the grated apples. Fill medium cupcake molds 2/3 full with batter.
Bake for about 15 minutes. Cool on wire racks, then spread with maple frosting.

Dagmar – I, too, love the combination of apples and maple syrup. I’m glad that you stuck with using brown sugar because it adds a caramel-like depth to the apple. Have you tried using blackstrap molasses? It makes a great, though heavier, substitute for maple syrup.

hey just asking, when you write 240ml flour do you mean 240g or 240ml when measured in a measuring cup for liquid? because isnt ml used to measure liquid only? i want to try your superb recipe but i’m not sure exactly which is correct and they are both very different! ): hee hee cant wait to eat this! :D

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